Poverty, Inequality and Growth in Jamaica, 1988-98, and Beyond

Anders Danielson
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Anders Danielson: Department of Economics, Lund University, Postal: Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Box 7082, S-220 07 Lund, Sweden

No 2003:7, Working Papers from Lund University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper looks into the relations between economic growth and poverty reduction in Jamaica. A poverty profile is constructed, based on household budget survey data, and per capita growth is decomposed into pure growth effects and changes in inequality effects. I find that growth has contributed to poverty reduction mainly because there has not been any large increases in inequality. However, simulations also show that in order to for growth to continue to be efficient for poverty reduction, it is necessary to improve the prospects for rurally based, particularly small-scale agricultural growth. If not, the possibility of growth being anti-poor cannot be ignored.

Keywords: growth; poverty; Jamaica; growth decomposition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O11 O49 O54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2003-06-06
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Published in Social and Economic Studies, 2004, pages 73-93.

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